Re: Deleted Scenes from the $n$-Crowd Movie

Re: The Arrow of Time in Cat (David Corfield)
At: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/the_arrow_of_time_in_cat.html

Well, then, consider this bit of anamnesis from Warren S. McCulloch:

| In 1923 I gave up the attempt to write a logic of transitive verbs and began to see what
| I could do with the logic of propositions.  My object, as a psychologist, was to invent
| a kind of least psychic event, or "psychon", that would have the following properties:
| First, it was to be so simple an event that it either happened or else it did not happen.
| Second, it was to happen only if its bound cause had happened -- shades of Duns Scotus! --
| that is, it was to imply its temporal antecedent.  Third, it was to propose this to
| subsequent psychons.  Fourth, these were to be compounded to produce the equivalents
| of more complicated propositions concerning their antecedents.
|
| In 1929 it dawned on me that these events might be regarded as the
| all-or-none impulses of neurons, combined by convergence upon the
| next neuron to yield complexes of propositional events.
|
| Warren S. McCulloch, "What Is a Number, that a Man May Know It,
| and a Man, that He May Know a Number?", Ninth Alfred Korzybski
| Memorial Lecture, ''General Semantics Bulletin'', Nos. 26 and 27,
| Institute of General Semantics, Lakeville, CT, 1961, pp. 7-18.
| Reprinted in ''Embodiments of Mind'', MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1965.

Logically speaking, effects imply their causes, do they not?

Jon Awbrey, 03 Nov 2009
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/the_arrow_of_time_in_cat.html#c028830

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